HYDERABAD: The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has agreed to extend financial support to 'Mission Kakatiya' and Telangana Drinking Water Project. The Chief General Manager of NABARD, Hyderabad, called on Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao today and said this year the bank would give Rs 360 crore for 'Mission Kakatiya' (for revival of water bodies) and Rs 500 crore in the next financial year, according to a state government...

HYDERABAD: The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has agreed to extend financial support to 'Mission Kakatiya' and Telangana Drinking Water Project. The Chief General Manager of NABARD, Hyderabad, called on Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao today and said this year the bank would give Rs 360 crore for 'Mission Kakatiya' (for revival of water bodies) and Rs 500 crore in the next financial year, according to a state government...

NEW DELHI: Commerce minister Kamal Nath says that the government is open to looking at all proposals made by Satyam board including extending financial support if "viable". Satyam is an exceptional case. There could be a case of delinquency but not of systematic failure. "There is no question on slur on Indian (companies') governance," he said.

DHAKA: Bangladesh's interim government has decided to restrict its financial support to madrassas unless they have a minimum 30 per cent success rate in public exams. The Education Ministry decided that no new madrassas would be given monthly pay order (MPO) unless they have the minimum 30 per cent success rate in public examinations, 'The New Age' daily reported on Saturday. Schools, colleges and madrassas are set up by private bodies and they...

NEW DELHI: NITI Aayog has proposed formulation of a new comprehensive national renewable energy policy that would set targets, provide roadmap for financial support and enable creation of an institution that would centrally procure renewable energy from developers to bring down the cost. Its proposal is in line with the government's vision of renewable energy accounting for 15 per cent of India's power production by 2020. This is the first policy advice from the...

NEW DELHI: The government is ready to go to any extend in helping 75 prospective athletes short-listed by an internal panel for 2016 Rio Olympic Games, union minister of youth affairs and sports Sarbananda Sonowal said, claiming that 10-plus medal win for India could be achievable. "If any of those 75 athletes needs extra-financial help, we will provide that. If someone asks for a special trainer, a physiotherapist or a...

MALE: Extending a helping hand to Maldives, which is currently embroiled in a political crisis, India has expedited the delivery of a $20 million stand-by loan. Indian High Commissioner in Male, D M Mulay , today said that in view of the difficult financial situation in Maldives, the Indian government had expedited delivery of standby loan of $20 million which was handed over by him to the Maldivian government few days back. The $50 million treasury bonds owed to the ...

New Delhi: Godavari Biorefineries Ltd, one of the leading sugar companies of the country, has contributed Rs 5 crore for cane growers of north Karnataka. The cane growers were in a soup due to uneven weather conditions in that part of the country. It is learnt that Godavari Biorefineries joint managing director Samir Somaiya himself took the initative to help the cane growers. It may be recalled that Somaiya is currently the president of the Indian Sugar Mills...

Senior citizens, who have a home of their own or a property in their name, may not need to lean on their kids for financial support in their old age. With the clarification on the taxation issues relating to the reverse mortgage scheme, senior citizens can expect to receive steady monthly earnings without the amount being taxed. Here's how it works: If you are a senior citizen (60 years and above) and in need of steady source of income, banks and some institutions offer you...

ROURKELA: Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has extended financial support to set up an Industrial Safety Museum at the Multi Disciplinary Centre on Safety, Health & Environment (MDC on SHE), Bhubaneswar, a Government of Odisha sponsored Autonomous Institute. The Institute is generating awareness pertaining to issues related to safety, health, environment and pollution control among the industrial population through training, ...

HYDERABAD: The country's first 'Bhu Bharti' (integrated land information system) project now taken up in two districts of Andhra Pradesh - Nizamabad and Warangal - on a pilot basis could be complete by March next. Union Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh after visiting the two districts reviewed the progress and expressed hope that the project would be extended to five more districts - Srikakulam, Kadapa, Kurnool, Karimnagar and Nellore in the current...

JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir government has said that around 2.54 lakh private structures and more than Rs 6500 crore public infrastructures were damaged during the floods last year. "Around 2.54 lakh private structures were damaged during the floods, while as damage to the public infrastructure has been estimated to be more than Rs.6500 crore in the State", Commissioner Secretary Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Vinod Kaul told a team of World Bank official here. Kaul...

NEW DELHI: In a major boost to the jute sector, the government today approved mandatory packaging of sugar and foodgrains in jute material to minimum extent of up to 90 per cent of production. A proposal for financial support to Jute Corporation of India to offset losses incurred by it on account of minimum support price operations also approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, an official release said. The government approved mandatory...

NEW DELHI: BJP might be poaching Kejriwal's former colleagues Kiran Bedi and Shazia Ilmi to blunt AAP onslaught in Delhi but if financial donations are anything to go by, the support for activist-turned-politician's party is only increasing. The day Bedi joined BJP, AAP saw a sudden spurt in financial support and received a record Rs 64 lakh in donations (mostly online support). Their website shows close to Rs 1 crore in collections in...

BERLIN: More than 200,000 people applied for asylum in Germany in 2014, a 60-percent rise over the previous year. Germany's Interior Ministry said Wednesday it was the third highest number of applications ever in Germany. Around 41,000 people, or 20 percent of all asylum seekers, were Syrian refugees and they usually were granted asylum. About 30 percent came from the Balkans region - their applications were generally rejected...

BHUBANESWAR: In its bid to set up a super speciality eye care hospital in Odisha's Ganjam district, Tata Steel today signed an agreement with the Tamil Nadu based Shankar Netralay. The eye hospital to be set up at Samarjhola village under Hinjilicut Block, the home constituency of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik , would be implemented and operated by Sankara Eye Hospital. An agreement in this regard was signed between Arun Misra, Vice President Gopalpur Project...

HOUSTON: Two Indian-American families in US state of Texas have provided considerable financial support for a new research and engineering building in the University of Houston campus. The new building, designed to encourage collaboration, will house core facilities shared by researchers from departments around the campus, including high-performance computing facilities, a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer lab and imaging facilities. Construction on...